Word: husak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even the use of the word "democracy" in the draft statement was cause for contention. As one high-level Italian Communist explained to TIME Correspondent Herman Nickel: "How could [Italian Party Chief] Enrico Berlinguer sign a statement on democracy that [Czechoslovak President] Gustav Husak could also sign?" The red-leather-bound final declaration, placed before each delegate at the opening of the two-day conference, affirmed the "complete independence" of each party "in accordance with the socio-economic conditions and specific national features prevailing in the country concerned...
...CZECHOSLOVAKIA is planning to establish "houses of political education" throughout the country by 1975. Meanwhile the Husak regime plans a broadcast blitz stressing "the ever-improving conditions under socialism." Its main targets: the 2,000,000 Czechoslovaks who regularly tune in to Austrian and West German television...
Then in April 1969, Dubček was shunted aside in favor of Gustav Husak, who publicly thanked the Soviets for rescuing Czechoslovakia from the danger of Dubček's liberalism. Nonetheless, Husak, who in Czechoslovak terms is a moderate, refused to accede to demands of ultraconservatives who wanted Dubček punished for his sins. Instead, Husak managed to send Dubček and his wife Anna into the relative safety of political exile as ambassador to Turkey. Sad-eyed and aged far beyond his 48 years, Dubček kept mostly to himself in Ankara, brushed...
...gold and white Spanish Hall of Prague's Hradcany Castle when he addressed a combined session of the Federal Assembly, the National Front and the Central Committee. All three bodies have been thoroughly purged of reformist members, sometimes on Brezhnev's personal orders. Czechoslovak Party Boss Gustav Husak dutifully thanked his visitors for their "international assistance," and Brezhnev was formally named a "hero of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic" for the "liberation" of the country...